I'm mostly iffy about playing a small Chinese republic. Thing about EU4 that it's still Euro-centric, and thus most of the flavour events are similarly concentrated.
Voting for Tuscany.
Technically Tibet isn't small. It has multiple provinces, all of which are huge. The tax is just terrible.
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